Tending Wounded Documents

Tending Wounded Documents

Historical records of no. 8 Canadian Field Ambulance 1915-1919 | Gunn, John N. (1920). Historical records of no. 8 Canadian Field Ambulance: Canada, England, France, Belgium, 1915-1919. Toronto: Ryerson Press. – Source: http://www.archive.org/details/historicalrecord00gunnuoft | A 214 page book about a particular Canadian field hospital (called then an “ambulance” ) during the First World War.

Surgery at the Front | Source: MacPhail, Sir Andrew. (1925). Official history of the Canadian forces in the great war 1914-19. The medical services, by Sir Andrew MacPhail … Pub. by authority of the minister of national defence, under direction of the General staff. Ottawa,: F.A. Acland, printer. | A 14-page chapter devoted to what surgery at the front was like for Canadian army officers. ‘The number of wounded in the Canadian army passing through medical formations was 144.606. The number of troops overseas was 418,052. The ratio of wounded was, therefore, 34.59 per cent, that is, more than one person was wounded out of three who served. Of these wounded, 16,459 died, that is 11.4 per cent.’

With a field ambulance at Ypres | Source: Boyd, William. (1916). With a field ambulance at Ypres being letters written March 7-August 15, 1915. Toronto: Musson. | A book that provides an account of the work at a field ambulance at Ypres through the letters written home. It reads like a diary and provides a really good feel regarding what it was like on the Western Front in Belgium, 1915. “April 25, 1915. The tension does not abate. Indeed, it increases every day. The fighting is desperate in the extreme, and the number of wounded pouring in is frightful. I spent nine hours to-day working in one of
the dressing stations.”

Story of the Canadian Medical Corps | Source: Adami, J. George. (1918). War story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps – Vol. 1 The First Contingent. Toronto: Published for the Canadian War Records Office by Colour Ltd. and The Rolls House Publishing Co. Ltd. | This 136 page book tracks the work of the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) throughout the First World War. One for the interested and motivated!

Development of service in the field | MacPhail, Sir Andrew. (1925). Official history of the Canadian forces in the great war 1914-19. The medical services, by Sir Andrew MacPhail … Pub. by authority of the minister of national defence, under direction of the General staff. Ottawa,: F.A. Acland, printer.| A 19-page chapter devoted to how it was that the clearing station and train depots system came to be developed.

Diseases of War | Source: MacPhail, Sir Andrew. (1925). Official history of the Canadian forces in the great war 1914-19. The medical services, by Sir Andrew MacPhail … Pub. by authority of the minister of national defence, under direction of the General staff. Ottawa,: F.A. Acland, printer. A 25 page chapter that details a number of diseases of war – particularly of trench warfare including trench fever, trench foot, and trench mouth.

Canadian Army Medical Corps | Source: Canada. Ministry of Overseas Military Forces. (1919). Report of the Ministry of Overseas Military Forces of Canada. Ottawa: London : H.M. Stationery Office. | A 13-page extract that presents an account of the operations of the Canadian Army Medical Corps in the First World War.

Red Cross Appeal to the Veterans | Canadian Red Cross Society, Post War Work of the Manitoba Red Cross and Red Cross Appeal to the Veterans for the Membership Enrollment, June 5 – 11, 1921, War, Memory and Popular Culture Archives – The University of Western Ontario – London, Ontario via Wartime Canada | A 4-page pamphlet outlining a campaign to appeal to veterans to become members.